Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington, founded the Irish Women’s Franchise League. She smashed windows in Dublin Castle in protest, supported strikers in the Lockout, was arrested for protesting recruitment in WW1, delivered messages to the GPO during the Rising & a lot more.
In the 1798 ‘Ballad of Ann Flood’, the author celebrates the reaction of Ann Flood who killed a Hessian captain in self defence after the Battle of New Ross. The writer laments: ‘she should have been with us on Vinegar Hill, with a fine pike the foe to kill’.
#OnThisDay 1923 Michael Murphy & Joseph O’Rourke were executed for armed robbery of a bank in Galway. Both said the money was to pay off farm debts, but the authorities said they had political links to the IRA. These were the last executions of the Civil War.
#OnThisDay 1906 Michael Davitt, founder of the Irish National Land League, Fenian arms-smuggler & politician died. Davitt’s drive to organise tenant farmers in Ireland ultimately ended the landlord system with tenants able to purchase their land with government loans.
#OnThisDay 1798 United Irishmen rebels ambush Meath Militia at Three Rocks in Wexford. The U.I kill or capture 90 & take two howitzers. The U.I. then take Wexford Town. The garrison in Wexford town withdrew to Duncannon fort, looting & pillaging on their way.
The Irish at War 